Luis Suarez of IBM has essentially sworn off email since February 2008, opting instead to use social media to communicate with colleagues. "I was getting tired of doing everyone else's work instead of mine," he told Wired, explaining that many of his daily emails entailed answering...
PriceWaterhouseCoopers employees who choose to work on the weekends will encounter a fascinating aspect of the company's email policy: a gentle reminder not to burden your colleagues with messages. Here's the message in its entirety, courtesy of AttorneyRetention.org: It's the Weekend Help reduce...
Ridiculously Efficient readers are familiar with efficiency strategies like working in spurts, leveraging Parkinson's Law and managing decision fatigue; this list of unconventional productivity strategies shares novel ideas to boost effectiveness. Productivity-Enhancing Office Practices * Does Your Office Need a Thinking Day? * 5 Management Strategies to Enable Efficiency * 3...
Volkswagen is fighting the good fight in work-life balance by stopping its BlackBerry servers from delivering email to employees after regular work hours. The plan, which applies to VW Germany workers with trade-union-negotiated contracts, only permits emails to be delivered during a window that begins 30 minutes before an employee&...
